Monday, October 17, 2022

Writing Poems. Poets and their Processes.

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The Editors at Long Poem Magazine invited me to contribute to their 'Poets and their processes' series. There's a critical myth...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

Review, The letters of Basil Bunting, OuP

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  My Review of The Letters of Basil Bunting, selected and edited by Alex Niven, is now up on the Brazen Head. You can read it by clicking on...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Publication; Chapter eight of the story of Vortigern.

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  A QUEEN IN THE WILDERNESS.  Chapter eight of my story of Vortigern, is online at the Brazen head. https://brazen-head.org/2022/09/27/a-que...
Sunday, September 25, 2022

Porius by John Cowper Powys.

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  Rereading this, I'm struck by how successful Powys was in creating a fictional world set in the past. A small corner of what is now Wa...
Monday, August 29, 2022

Robert Graves, Poetic Unreason and reading The Tempest.

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This began as a contemplation of John Kerrigan’s “Shakespeare’s Originality’ (2018) and my intention was to compare Kerrigan’s chapter on Th...
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

He Do the Police in Different Voices, Badly(?)

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  Rereading the Waste Land Manuscript for a talk. Surprised, once again, at how uneven the draft was. This is the same writer who produced P...
Saturday, July 30, 2022

Letters of Basil Bunting #3. Pound, Bunting and Persian literature

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Bunting’s Persia revisted.      Ten years ago, trying to study Bunting’s disagreement with Pound over Bunting’s Persian translations, I had ...